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How to Make it as a Millennial

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> there’s certainly a shortage of long term think and creativity

You don't say. And the solution is to start a youtube channel for exposure? Ok then.

I'm a friend of Jennifer's, I would say that she's on the money with the attention part. The vehicle that you choose to get that attention will depend on your strengths. If you have a cool voice then go the Podcast route, if you are full of energy and theatrical start a YouTube channel. The reality is, the people who are succeeding in the new age are using all of these tools to some degree. In addition to that, building an audience by being unique and creative is a grind but a worthy one. Out of curiosity, where do you find an issue with this?

I find an issue here

>attention leads to money.

I think it's blatantly wrong and not even worth engaging with someone who presents that as an axiom, if you or she wants to actually argue for why that is true (and in the process explain all the people for whom it hasn't been true) then go ahead.

There's a bunch of gurus that have done this and have been tremendously successful. To name a few: Gary Vaynerchuk, Grant Cardone, Tai Lopez, James Altucher. I'm sure there are cases that haven't been as successful, but show me one business that doesn't have failures? The point she was making was with the internet you can become a successful personality because with great content you can build up an audience without a middle man.

What? There's a bunch of rich professional athletes too but you'd be laughed off the internet if you published an article saying that the answer to poor career prospects for millenials was to start playing football. If 'it might work for a couple people' was the point she was making she did a very poor job of it.

> 3. Create value for [...] people

Why isn't this higher on the list? I suspect there's far more people quietly kicking ass than making it by being a "personality" via their blog/podcast/twitch/whatever.

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